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When I see an interviewee list out a bunch of things they have "experience" with like that, I assume they actually mean "I used this once".


It's hard to avoid touching the DOM, HTTP, NPM, React, NGINX, Docker, etc. on a daily basis if you're doing any kind of serious work; it's not just some disjoint list of obscure buzzwords.


Yes, compare and contrast the above to my own partial list of technologies from 1977 to 1997...

“Nova 1220 BASIC, Acius 4th Dimension, Hypercard, MetroWerks CodeWarrior, Lightspeed C, Turbo Pascal, MP/M, DigiTalk Smalltalk/V, J2EE, ...”

What does any of that have to do with each other.


There's one thing: Hypercard and DigiTalk represent directions personal computing should have gone, but didn't (although that's not relevant to the thread topic)


It's not so much that someone has touched <acronym soup> rather the kind of people that think just listing all that out is useful, are typically not the developers I want.




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